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• The last resort

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-05-24 07:50:15 Author: Ralph T. Niemeyer

   Household Savings rate slightly up – due to Privatisation of Pension schemes as shown by the latest figures released by Eurostat and the European Central Bank (ECB). These look at first glance as though a slightly increased savings rate has automatica...

• Hedge funds and private equity

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-05-24 07:32:20 Author: Poppy McIntyre

   The debate on hedge funds and private equity goes on and at the last Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs [ECON] the Rapporteur presented a draft Report that requests the Commission to initiate legislative proposals by 30 November 2008. These will...

• Big Brother approaching

  Politics

  Created: 2008-05-06 15:48:05 Author: Ralph T. Niemeyer

   Since EU Reporter's publication of EU plans for a "state owned" TV station a debate has begun in Germany over how much in state subsidies public broadcasters may use for Internet online news presented by state funded broadcasters.  ...

• Knaves and honest thieves

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-25 19:52:51 Author: Chris White

   There are many jokes doing the rounds that liken the European Parliament to a parody of Disney Land: a fantasy world populated by unbelievable and colourful characters. As the European Union approaches something like nationhood with the arrival of t...

• Not on top of the world

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-04-25 08:21:26 Author: Ralph T Niemeyer

  Inspired by a press release from the German Convention Bureau proclaiming that Germany is on its way to the top of the World as market leader for meetings and congresses according to the study ‘International Association Meetings Market 2007” carried ...

• Stranger than fiction

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-24 18:17:51 Author: Chris White

   If it were not so serious it would be funny. As one of the European Parliament’s most colourful members – and there are many contenders – commented today “you couldn’t make it up”. But there it is, according to Mr Farage back in Novemb...

• Missing the point

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-23 09:06:46 Author: Chris White

  On the day that the European Parliament’s centre right declared that “Justice belongs to all citizens of Europe, without exception” MEPs meeting in Strasbourg voted to cover up their own crimes. As government leaders met to assess the food crisis ...

• Human Rights Can Be Proposed, Not Imposed

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-16 23:00:00 Author: Jim Gibbons

  Darfur, Tibet, Afghanistan, the Balkans - France’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs managed to get them all into his address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He looked his usual relaxed self as he took a quick tour o...

• In the claws of a dragon

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-04-16 09:07:17 Author: Ralph T Niemeyer

  The credit-financed American Way of Life dies painfully. Mega Investor George Soros says he is seeing the biggest crisis since the 1930’s. He should know as he like no one else used the tools of the system to effect. Today, the savings rate of the avera...

• Merkel boycotts media

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-15 23:00:00 Author: Jim Gibbons

   Sshhh…! The Federal Chancellor is here… You might be excused for thinking that when Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany gives a speech to a public body she wants the world to hear about it. There’s not much point in a public speech no-one ...

• Human Rights Commissioner defends press freedom

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-15 23:00:00 Author: Jim Gibbons

  “Journalists who criticise governments or their officials are often dismissed as being biased and not professional,” said the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, at a press conference in Strasbourg to launch his Annual ...

• Inflating Death In Developing World

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-05 10:29:10 Author: Ralph T. Niemeyer

   INFLATING DEATH IN DEVELOPING WORLDHuman Dignity dies when a person’s each and every action has to be efficient, economically justifiable and sustainable. Where only profit maximisation rules there is no room for democracy and when the 'survival -...

• WITH US OR AGAINST US?

  Politics

  Created: 2008-04-03 12:34:22 Author: Chris White

   EU FUNDING: OK IF YOU'RE WITH USAt last it is out: a well known but seldom mentioned scandal that has been circulating in the European Parliament for months about Commission funding of NGOs has been brought into focus by Dr Caroline Jackson MEP. ...

• Inflation Up Means Interest Down

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-04-02 17:51:31 Author: Ralph T. Niemeyer

  Between a rock and a hard place: ECB President Trichet's dilemmaECB President Jean-Claude Trichet indicated weeks ago that he might lower interest rates in an attempt to soften the euro's strong performance against the US dollar in an attempt to save the ...

• Ralph Niemeyers economic view

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-03-31 12:18:01 Author: RALPH NIEMEYER

  Forget the "R" word: It's D for depressionAfter two weeks of tumbling and amid drastic losses the German DAX suddenly performed much better. On Friday it reached it's 6600 mark again, making it the most pressing question for investors what to do with all ...

• IPCC target young as ambassadors of change

  Politics

  Created: 2008-03-26 11:21:03 Author: Cillian Donnelly

   At a time when children are reportedly unable to sleep due to continuing concerns about climate change and global warming, the European Union is considering distributing a schoolbook across Europe highlighting the facts, and, the consequences of cli...

• WHO WILL RUN MEDIA?

  Politics

  Created: 2008-03-17 17:32:53 Author: Chris White

   INTELLIGENCE AND THE MEDIAIt couldn’t have turned up on a worse day. Just as concerned journalists based in Brussels were digesting the latest announcement in a long running EU institutional bid to dominate broadcast media Britain’s external sec...

• Climate comments continue to dog MEP

  Politics

  Created: 2008-03-05 11:10:53 Author: Cillian Donnelly

   As the debate over Parliamentary ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in the UK reaches a climax, one British MEP has come under attack in both London and Brussels for his views on climate change. Roger Helmer MEP, well-known for his sceptical views on...

• Blair ousted from Presidential race

  Politics

  Created: 2008-02-29 07:16:01 Author: Marc Jahns

   Tony Blair has been pushed out of the race to become the first permanent President of the European Council, a senior European Commission source has told EU Reporter. Blair, who declared an early interest in the post, appears to have been blocked th...

• PORK PRICES TO RISE

  Economy and Finance

  Created: 2008-02-27 11:26:51 Author: Rebecca Marr

  MEAT PRICES WILL RISE SAYS MEPHEADING FOR A HIGHWheat prices fell back on the world market from $20 a bushel to $9 but the downward adjustment should give the public no comfort farmer and member of the European Parliament Robert Sturdy said Wednesday. Th...